Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
2 “Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘aYou shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.Ex 19:6; Lev 11:44; 20:7, 26; Eph 1:4; 1 Pet 1:16 3 Every one of you ashall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep bMy Sabbaths; cI am the LORD your God.Ex 20:12; 31:13; Deut 5:16Ex 20:8Lev 11:44 4 Do not turn to aidols or make for yourselves cast metal bgods; I am the LORD your God.Lev 26:1; Ps 96:5; 115:4-7Ex 20:23; 34:17
5 ‘Now when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. 6 It shall be eaten on the same day you offer it, and on the next day; but what remains until the third day shall be burned with fire. 7 So if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is unclean; it will not be accepted. 8 And everyone who eats it will bear the consequences for his guilt, because he has profaned the holy thing of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from his people.
9 ‘aNow when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.Lev 23:22; Deut 24:20-22 10 And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the LORD your God.
11 ‘aYou shall not steal, nor deal falsely, bnor lie to one another.Ex 20:15, 16Jer 9:3-5; Eph 4:25 12 And ayou shall not swear falsely by My name, so as to bprofane the name of your God; I am the LORD.Ex 20:7; Deut 5:11; Matt 5:33Lev 18:21
13 ‘aYou shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. bThe wages of a hired worker are not to remain with you all night until morning.Ex 22:7-15, 21-27Deut 24:15; James 5:4 14 You shall not curse a person who is deaf, nor aput a stumbling block before a person who is blind, but you shall revere your God; I am the LORD.Deut 27:18
15 ‘aYou shall not do injustice in judgment; you shall not show partiality to the poor nor give preference to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.Ex 23:3, 6; Deut 1:17; 10:17; 16:19 16 You shall not go about as aa slanderer among your people; and you are not to 1jeopardize the 2blife of your neighbor. I am the LORD.Lit stand onLit bloodPs 15:3; Jer 6:28; 9:4; Ezek 22:9Ex 23:7; Deut 27:25
17 ‘You ashall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you bmay certainly rebuke your neighbor, but you are not to incur sin because of him.1 John 2:9, 11; 3:15Matt 18:15; Luke 17:3 18 aYou shall not take vengeance, bnor hold any grudge against the sons of your people, but cyou shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD.Deut 32:35; Rom 12:19; Heb 10:30Ps 103:9Matt 19:19; Mark 12:31; Luke 10:27; Rom 13:9; Gal 5:14; James 2:8
19 ‘You are to keep My statutes. You shall not cross-breed two kinds of your cattle; ayou shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment of two kinds of material mixed together.Deut 22:9, 11
20 ‘aNow if a man has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave acquired for another man, but who has in no way been redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be punishment; they shall not, however, be put to death, because she was not free.Deut 22:23-27 21 He shall bring his guilt offering to the LORD to the doorway of the tent of meeting, aa ram as a guilt offering.Lev 6:1-7 22 The priest shall also make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the LORD for his sin which he has committed, and the sin which he has committed will be forgiven him.
23 ‘Now when you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as 1forbidden. For three years it shall be 2forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten.Lit uncircumcised 24 And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD. 25 But in the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, so that its yield may increase for you; I am the LORD your God.
26 ‘You shall not eat any meat awith the blood. You shall not practice bdivination nor soothsaying.Gen 9:4; Lev 7:26f; 17:10; Deut 12:16, 23Deut 18:10; 2 Kin 17:17 27 aYou shall not round off the 1hairline of your heads, nor trim the edges of your beard.Lit sideLev 21:5; Deut 14:1 28 You shall not make any cuts in your 1body for the 2dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.Lit fleshLit soul
29 ‘aDo not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not fall into prostitution, and the land does not become full of outrageous sin.Lev 21:9; Deut 22:21; 23:17, 18 30 You shall akeep My Sabbaths and brevere My sanctuary; I am the LORD.Lev 19:3Lev 26:2
31 ‘Do not turn to 1amediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.Or ghosts or spiritsLev 20:6, 27; Deut 18:11; 1 Sam 28:3; Is 8:19
32 ‘aYou shall stand up in the presence of the grayheaded and honor 1elders, and you shall 2fear your God; I am the LORD.Lit the face of the oldOr revereProv 23:22; Lam 5:12; 1 Tim 5:1
33 ‘aWhen a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not 1do him wrong.Lit oppress himEx 22:21; Deut 24:17, 18 34 The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and ayou shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.Lev 19:18
35 ‘aYou shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or volume.Deut 25:13-16; Ezek 45:10 36 You shall have aaccurate balances, accurate weights, an accurate 1ephah, and an accurate 2hin; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.I.e., a dry measure, about 1 cubic foot or 0.03 cubic metersI.e., a liquid measure, about 1 gallon or 3.8 litersDeut 25:13-15; Prov 20:10 37 So you shall keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them; I am the LORD.’”